The Narrative Study On Chinese Military Themed Drama In The New Century

Military themed TV dramas played an important role in the Chinese TV drama Art Gallery. In the new century, the production and consumption of Chinese military themed TV dramas show a thriving scene in the multi-cultural background, at the same time get the general concern of the academic study for its unique value.This paper takes some outstanding military dramas as the subjects of study, discusses the author's point from the perspective of narrative and by using analytic demonstration method. First the paper expatiates the narrative of Chinese military themed TV dramas in the new century by the dialogue and blend of the multi-narrative and the expansion of narrative theme. Second it treats of its narrative strategy from the use of both civilianization and entertaining elements. Third it focuses on some of the new sub-types of the military dramas, and elaborates the narrative patternization and nationalization as well as inherited wisdom from several traditional narrative patterns. At last, the paper analyses the narrative layer of military themed TV dramas from three areas: time and space of the narrative, audio-visual language and details. Concluded: in the new century, the psychological expectations of socialization and public raised higher demand on the creation. China's military dramas have to adjust its narrative strategy in a timely manner, flexible in the use of narrative means and to avoid its disadvantages in the future development with the progress of the times and psychological changes in the audience, in order to bring the audience the all-round, multi-level spiritual enjoyment.